Tag: open source
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Open Turds
I've open-sourced a lot of pretty shit code.
So whenever somebody says "I'm not open-sourcing this because the code is shit", I think: wow, it must be spectacularly bad.
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Automattic Shakeup
Matt's announced a re-organisation we've been doing in Automattic. I like it, because it reaffirms our commitment to doing the most good for our users (whether they're paying us, or not, or even our competitors). But I don't understand how we persuade the world how committed we are to it.
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[Bloganuary] Fun Five
Five things I do for fun: code, magic, piano, play, learn. Let's dig into those a little...
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CapsulePress - Gemini / Spartan / Gopher to WordPress bridge
My WordPress blog posts are accessible via Gemini, Spartan, and Gopher. And now I've open-sourced the code that makes it possible. I give you: CapsulePress!
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Better WordPress RSS Feeds
I've been adding bonus features to my blog's RSS feeds for a while now. Wanna hear about them?
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WCEU23 - Contributor Day
Today was Contributor Day at my very first WordCamp. I hacked code for WP-CLI and met some awesome people.
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Email newsletters via RSS
No, I won't subscribe to your newsletter... except by using my RSS reader (and a clever feature of OpenTrashMail)!
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Sisyphus: The Board Game (Digital Edition)
I implemented a terrible digital version of a truly stupid board game idea. My excuse is illness, I guess?
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Finally got around to implementing a super-lightweight (~20 lines of code, 1 dependency) Spring '83 key generator. There are plenty of others; nobody needs this one, but it's free if you want it:
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.well-known/links in WordPress
Dan implements a WordPress plugin to support Jim Nielsen's proposal for .well-known/links.
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Beating Children at Mastermind [Video]
Video version of Dan's recent blog post about writing software to help him cheat at Mastermind.
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Beating Children at Mastermind
Sick of losing Mastermind to his kids, Dan cheats by implementing a brute-force solver he can run on his phone.
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DNDle (Wordle, but with D&D monster stats)
Dan releases DNDle, a Wordle clone where you assign characteristics to try to guess the Dungeons and Dragons monster-of-the-day.
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Minification vs the GPL
Does distributing only minified code violate the GPL? What about if the "minification" is minimal and hand-done as part of other code improvements? There's a grey area here, and Dan's going to overthink it!
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From Synergy to Barrier
Disenchanted by a lack of platform support, Dan switches from Synergy to its fork, open-source competitor Barrier.